National Pingtung University

The relationship between land consolidation and neighboring housing prices – application of quantile regression

Purpose This study aims to use the hedonic price method to explore the relationship between land consolidation and neighboring housing prices. Design/methodology/approach Beginning in the 1980s, with the goal of expediting the city’s development, the Kaohsiung City Government beg...

Are Corporate Governance Choices Contagious? Peer Effects in Board Gender Diversity and Institutional Ownership

ABSTRACT This research explores whether corporate governance has a comprehensive impact on peer firms, analyzing US companies via a sample of 15,494 observations from 2001 to 2018. The findings reveal that effective corporate governance produces positive spillover effects, leadin...

Configuring the green sustainability balanced scorecard of net-zero emissions for agriculture sector

Currently, industries worldwide are committed to Net-Zero emissions (NZE) for sustainability. Various fields have adopted the guidelines proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which in 2021 set industry guidelines specifically for agriculture. However, efforts to achi...

Novel polyvinyl alcohol–borax hydrogel with potential to accelerate skin wound healing in aquatic models: zebrafish and tilapia

Abstract Skin integrity is vital for fish survival, as injuries compromise the protective barrier and increase infection risk. This study introduces a simple and eco-friendly strategy to enhance skin wound healing in aquatic species using a PVA+borax hydrogel. The hydrogel, chara...

Comparison of Stress-Coping Mechanisms Among Students With and Without Specific Learning Disabilities

Grounded in Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model, this study examined differential stress-coping mechanisms among Taiwanese junior high school students ( N = 898; seventh–ninth grade; 55.8% male), comprising 491 typically developing students and 407 students with specific le...